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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.

Quincy Jones

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Trouble Yourself
A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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Consciousness Myself Woman
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Country Food Language Music Soul
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Ground Industry Myself Place
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Economics Money Myself Racism
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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Love Myself People Wings

I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.

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